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ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 25 No. 1
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Monday, February 25, 2013
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&LW\ RIĂ€FLDOV PDNH FDVH IRU SROLFH +4 Seek  OK  for  $1.85M  bond  in  March  5  vote By  ANDY  KIRKALDY VERGENNES  —  Vergennes  resi- dents  on  March  5  will  decide  whether  to  support  the  city  council’s  $1.85  mil- lion  bond  proposal  to  pay  for  a  new,  5,940-Âsquare-Âfoot  police  station  on  North  Main  Street.  The  price  tag  includes  $1.15  mil- lion  for  the  building,  about  $200,000  for  site  development  costs,  roughly  $80,000  in  design  fees,  a  $50,000  con- tingency,  $59,000  for  a  generator  and  furniture,  and  a  number  of  other  small- er  expenses.  The  land  cost  could  vary.  The  city  has  agreed  to  buy  the  0.75-Âacre  for- mer  Vergennes  Auto  Sales  property  for  $229,000,  and  could  spend  up  to  $22,000  more  to  buy  more  adjacent  ODQG WR DOORZ Ă€H[LELOLW\ LQ VLWLQJ WKH building  and  parking  and  room  for  a  future  garage.  Aldermen  have  discussed  offsetting  some  of  the  tax  impact  of  the  bond  by  XVLQJ WUDIÂżF WLFNHW UHYHQXH DQG SRV- sibly  some  Water  Tower  Fund  money.  According  to  a  community  forum  piece  submitted  to  the  Independent  and  (See  Police  station,  Page  25)
Bristol  dental  center  lands  $300K  grant By  JOHN  FLOWERS BRISTOL  —  A  new  dental  center  serving  people  of  all  income  levels  is  expected  to  open  this  fall  in  Bristol’s  revitalized  industrial  park,  thanks  to  a  recently  announced  $300,000  fed- eral  grant  that  will  provide  key  fund- ing  for  the  longstanding  effort. Moreover,  the  opening  of  the  Ad- dison  County  Dental  Center  (ACDC)  is  expected  to  complement  a  concur- rent  effort  to  establish  a  Federally  (See  Dental  clinic,  Page  2)
Pure  joyride NICHOLAS  CANNON  OF  Bristol  takes  his  daughters,  Mae,  2,  and  Georgia,  5,  down  a  snowy  slope  on  the  Middlebury  College  campus  last  Thursday  morning.  Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
Monkton landowners wary of pipeline plan By  XIAN  CHIANG-ÂWAREN 021.721 ² /DVW $XJXVW ZDV WKH ÂżUVW WLPH Beverly  Latreille,  82,  of  Rotax  Road  in  Monkton  heard  of  it.  The  man  who  came  to  her  door  was  ZRUNLQJ IRU DQ HQJLQHHULQJ ÂżUP WKDW KDG EHHQ hired  by  Vermont  Gas  Systems,  the  South  Burl- ington  natural  gas  company  now  planning  to  build  a  42-Âmile,  $72  million  pipeline  extension  through Â
Addison  County  to  Ticonderoga,  N.Y.  “He  stopped  here  and  told  me  about  it,â€?  said  Latreille.  “He  said  there  would  be  people  (survey- ing),  and  it  would  be  following  the  VELCO  line,  and  would  it  be  OK  if  they  parked  on  our  property  or  walked  on  it,  because  they  wanted  to  get  off  the  highway. Âł7KH KD\ÂżHOG ZDV VWLOO VWDQGLQJ KD\ ´ VKH UH-Â
called,  saying  she  offered  to  sign  what  she  thought  was  an  agreement  to  let  crews  park  on  her  lawn. “I  didn’t  care  if  they  parked  on  my  lawn  to  get  farther  off  the  highway,�  Latreille  said.  “And  we  signed  the  agreement,  not  realizing.� What  she  and  her  family  didn’t  realize  was  that  the  agreement  allowed  workers  to  survey  their  (See  Pipeline,  Page  16)